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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






2. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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3. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.






4. Open syllable






5. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






6. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






7. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






8. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






9. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress






10. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






11. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies

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12. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.






13. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






14. Multisensory Structured Language






15. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






16. Whole body learning






17. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






18. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language






19. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






20. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






21. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






22. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






23. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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24. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






25. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!






26. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






27. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






28. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally






29. Final stable syllable

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30. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






31. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






32. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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33. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.






34. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.






35. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.






36. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






37. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






38. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






39. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






40. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






41. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






42. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer






43. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






44. Wide Range Achievement Test






45. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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46. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






47. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






48. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.






49. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.






50. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail